An employee walking along a thermal pipe at the Kamojang geothermalpower plant near Garut, West Java, on March 18. State utility provider Perusahaan Listrik Negara is targeting an additional 135 megawatts ofelectricity from three new geothermal plants. (Reuters Photo/Beawiharta)

So let me tell you what else they did. They just showed you what's wrong with nuclear power. "Safe to the maximum," they said. "Our devices are strong and cannot fail." But they did. They are no match for Gaia.

It seems that for more than 20 years, every single time we sit in the chair and speak of electric power, we tell you that hundreds of thousands of tons of push/pull energy on a regular schedule is available to you. It is moon-driven, forever. It can make all of the electricity for all of the cities on your planet, no matter how much you use. There's no environmental impact at all. Use the power of the tides, the oceans, the waves in clever ways. Use them in a bigger way than any designer has ever put together yet, to power your cities. The largest cities on your planet are on the coasts, and that's where the power source is. Hydro is the answer. It's not dangerous. You've ignored it because it seems harder to engineer and it's not in a controlled environment. Yet, you've chosen to build one of the most complex and dangerous steam engines on Earth - nuclear power.

We also have indicated that all you have to do is dig down deep enough and the planet will give you heat. It's right below the surface, not too far away all the time. You'll have a Gaia steam engine that way, too. There's no danger at all and you don't have to dig that far. All you have to do is heat fluid, and there are some fluids that boil far faster than water. So we say it again and again. Maybe this will show you what's wrong with what you've been doing, and this will turn the attitudes of your science to create something so beautiful and so powerful for your grandchildren. Why do you think you were given the moon? Now you know.

This benevolent Universe gave you an astral body that allows the waters in your ocean to push and pull and push on the most regular schedule of anything you know of. Yet there you sit enjoying just looking at it instead of using it. It could be enormous, free energy forever, ready to be converted when you design the methods of capturing it. It's time. …”

Friday, July 6, 2012

Geothermal Power Could Help Bridge Indonesia's Energy Gap: WWF

An employee of Indonesia Power walks near a thermal pipe at Kamojang geothermal power plant near Garut, in Indonesia's West Java province in this file photo. Indonesia invested in green energy like geothermal power at a greaterrate than G20 countries like the United States, India and Japan. (Reuters Photo)

WWF
Indonesia launched a report on Thursday which mapped out the country’s
geothermal resources in a bid to promote the use of alternative energy sources.

The report,
titled “Igniting the Ring of Fire: A Vision to Develop Indonesia’s Geothermal
Power,” said Indonesia had the world’s biggest geothermal potential as the
country sat on the world’s most active volcanic belt, the Ring of Fire, which
frames the Pacific Ocean.

There could
be up to 29 gigawatts of electricity produced if Indonesia was into tap all of
its geothermal resources, the report said.

That is
more than enough energy to fulfil the needs of two of Indonesia’s most
populated islands, Java and Bali, where demand peaked in April at 20.1
gigawatts.

Currently,
Indonesia only uses 1.2 gigawatts of geothermal power, the environment group
said.

Indra said
that Indonesia must harness geothermal energy by not overlooking environmental,
social and economic impacts as well as the capacity of the regional
administrations and local residents.

“Challenges
for developing geothermal [power] start with regulation and governance. In
terms of regulation, there is an overlap between geothermal areas and forest
areas,” the WWF coordinator said. “Ways need to be found so forest conservation
is not sacrificed. There needs to be best practices [of geothermal harvesting]
which can serve as benchmarks.”

The
government has said it wants 25 percent of power used in the country to come
from renewable energy sources and a 25 percent drop in carbon emissions by
2025. But the WWF said Indonesia could exceed that by harnessing geothermal
energy, which now only contributes 1 percent of the country’s energy needs.

Last month,
Energy Minister Jero Wacik said the government planned to directly award more
concessions to companies to speed up the sector’s development.

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